{"product_id":"various-artists-soul-jazz-records-presents-studio-one-roots","title":"Various Artists \/ Soul Jazz Records Presents - STUDIO ONE ROOTS","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoul Jazz Records celebrate 25 years of working in partnership with Studio One with brand new editions of five of their best-selling classic Studio One collections, released as special edition card wallet CD (where applicable) and one-off pressing coloured double vinyl editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Studio One Roots’ set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series and features many of the classic artists from Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining in-house groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. The album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s ‘Blackish White’, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers’ genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of The Skatalites’ seminal Rastafari anthem ‘Addis Ababa’ and many, many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of ‘When Reggae Was King’), compiled by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouble LP pressed onto Orange vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone’s reggae collection.” - All Music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soul Jazz Records","offers":[{"title":"Double Orange Vinyl LP","offer_id":54474201203011,"sku":"RPT-23142","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/23bcd3993bb322b91c0a89d0c04089b8.png?v=1778502929","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/various-artists-soul-jazz-records-presents-studio-one-roots","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}